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By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

John Roberts

The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
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Care Character Finance Health Reason
You can’t fight for your rights if you don’t know what they are.
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Fight Right Unknown Yourself
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society. Those failures – joined with the similar failures of others – can readily have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.
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Effect Failure Goodness People Reason Society Welfare
If it’s a situation in which the public is being given access, you can’t discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don’t have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.
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Discrimination Public Right Situation
People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for society.
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Failure Goodness People Reason Society
The States are separate and independent sovereigns. Sometimes they need to act like it.
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Act Independent Need Politics Separate
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.
JOHN ROBERTS

Authority Government Help Ordinary Power Protection
I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don’t think they’re funny and the non-lawyers don’t think they’re jokes.
JOHN ROBERTS

Audience Joke Law Myself
If it’s a situation in which the public is being given access, you can’t discriminate against the media and say, as a general matter, that the media don’t have access, because their access rights, of course, correspond with those of the public.
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Access Discrimination Media Public Right Situation
Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.
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Best Fact Scene
The Affordable Care Act’s requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.
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Act Care Character Reason Tax
Anytime you get nine people together, whether it’s at a party or it’s in the conference room of the Supreme Court, you do have to maintain some order, or it does kind of degenerate into squabbling pretty quickly.
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Kind Maintain Order Party People Quick Room Time Togetherness Yourself
Judges are like umpires. Umpires don’t make the rules. They apply them.
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Apply Judgement Rule
I think judicial temperament is a willingness to step back from your own committed views of the correct jurisprudential approach and evaluate those views in terms of your role as a judge. It’s the difference between being a judge and being a law professor.
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Commitment Judgement Judiciary Law Role Temper Thinking View Willing
The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.
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Board Education Existence Law Literate People Place Public Reading
The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race.
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Discrimination Oppression Race Stop Way

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